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The Moon's a Balloon
Niven's lovely autobiography is both honest and hilarious. There are stories about the prostitute with a heart of gold who taught him about sex when he was very young, shenanigans as an actor (screwups in a Pasadena Playhouse stage play early in his career, trying to sob before the corpse of Cathy on the set of Wyler's "Wuthering Heights"), but some of the best stories date from his years in British military service, with an eccentric comrade named Trubs...